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The Evil Stepmother as Insult Comic
Gideon Leek reviews the reissue of Caroline Blackwood’s 1976 novel “The Stepdaughter.”
Archive
Building a Public Energy Commons
Ashley Dawson reviews Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno’s “The Fall and Rise of American Finance” and Brett Christophers’s “The Price Is Wrong.”
Make Valuable Things
Upon the release of Childish Gambino’s final studio album, Cherith King revisits an exploration of his contribution to the “new black Gothic.”
We’re a Team, Not a Family
Michael Eby reviews “Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality” by Benjamin Shestakofsky.
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Sunny S. Yudkoff reviews “Gretel and the Great War," Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s new abecedarian WWI novel.
Antisemitism Studies and the War Against the Imagination
Safa Khatib considers theories of Judaism, antisemitism, Zionism, and anti-Zionism in her review of “Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism” by Jonathan Judaken.
Through “The Looking Glass”
Mikaela Dery reviews Sable Yong’s “Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity.”
Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire?
Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”
Exhuming a Historical Myth
Minsoo Kang examines the persistence of Korean nationalism in the South Korean horror thriller “Exhuma,” directed by Jang Jae-hyun.
Revenge of the Horror Comic
Ready, boils and ghouls, for a jolting tale of tension in the EC tradition? Read the Britt-Keeper’s account of a spooky little soirée at Revenge Of in Glassell Park … if you dare!
Pessimism and Politics
In this special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman consider the role of pessimism in our approach to contemporary politics.
Lifting the Horizon
Shoshana Olidort reviews Andrea Cohen’s “The Sorrow Apartments.”
Exuberant Assembly [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld attends the 2024 Venice Biennale and profiles its curator, Adriano Pedrosa.
A Road Atlas for Self-Reckoning
Erik Gleibermann confronts the elusive father figure in his review of “Someone Like Us,” the third novel from acclaimed Ethiopian-American writer Dinaw Mengestu.
Commendable Snitches
Gordon Marino considers “The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No” by Carl Elliott.
Peering Through the Darkness
Regan Mies reviews Wolfgang Hilbig’s “Under the Neomoon” and “Territories of the Soul/On Intonation.”
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